Born in Wisbech and attended Gresham School.
Matriculated at Clare, 1933. Read Law.
Richard Bennett matriculated in 1920 and graduated from Clare in 1924. He studied Natural Sciences.
He was the nephew of the well-known author Arnold Bennett and he later donated the c.600 letters that he received from his uncle to the UL. Richard Bennett was also a member of the 'Boot club', a college group founded through a mutual interest in 'the Boot' pub in Dullingham (see Volume 1). After leaving the College he held posts at Lever Brothers and later ICI.
Admitted to Clare College in 1936.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action and awarded the Victoria Cross.
Master of Clare College, 1762-1781
Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.
Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .
Died 25 October 1781.
Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85
Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.
Died c. 1782.
Born in London in 1662
20 October 1680 admitted as a sizar at Clare College
Matriculated in 1681
B.A. 1684/5
M.A. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)
D.D. 1717 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow of Clare College 1686-1723
Senior proctor 1709-10
A popular tutor and ardent supporter of the Newtonian system
Vicar of Quy-cum-Stow, Cambridgeshire, 1709
Prebend of Worcester, 1717-23
Chaplain to George I.
Died 28 July 1723
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.
Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722
“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683
Died May 1722
Born on 27 June 1832
Son of Henry of Needham Market, Suffolk
School – Ipswich
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 11 June 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862
Ordained deacon (Ely) 1856; priest (London) 1857; Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9. Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7. Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24
Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge
Author of History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe [There is a copy of this in the Archive search room 942.659 BEC inscribed by the author 'Presented to Clare College Library by Canon Beck June 1907')
Died on 17 October 1924 in Cambridge
Born on 28 January 1807, the son of John Bailey
School - Merchant Taylors’
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1826, Scholar
B.A. (31st Wrangler) 1830
M.A. 1833
B.D. 1852
Fellow, 1831
Proctor, 1847
Ordained a deacon (Rochester Litt. dim. from Ely) on 17 June 1832; priest (Carlisle) on 21 June 1834.
Chaplain-in-Ordinary at Hampton Court Palace, 1849-65; vacated his rooms at the Palace in 1865.
Rector of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1858-71
Died on 3 August 1871
Matriculated at Clare, 1879.
Born in November 1859 in Denmark Hill, South London, the son of James Sharp, a Slate Merchant who made money in the massive expansion of Victorian London and retired early rather than pass the business to his sons. Sharp went to Uppingham School (noted for its music) before starting a maths degree at Clare College, Cambridge in 1879. In Oct 1882 he left for Adelaide, Australia where he stayed for nearly ten years, working for five years as Associate to the Chief Justice of South Australia and then as a partner in a private venture, the Adelaide College of Music. There, despite his lack of formal musical training, he taught Singing and Music Theory, using spare time to write compositions of his own and to conduct the Adelaide Philharmonia Society (see Hugh Anderson 'Virtue in a Wilderness' Folk Music Journal 1994).
In 1893 Sharp took a part-time music post at Ludgrove School, a prep school in North London where he had freedom to create concert programmes with new material for choirs. He stayed there till 1910, combining it with several other jobs, notably as Principal of the (private) Hampstead Conservatoire of Music (1896-1905) and as Music Tutor to the Royal Household (1904-7). He had meanwhile married Constance Birch in 1893 and they had 4 children, settling in Hampstead. He joined the Folk Song Society in 1901 and began collecting Folk Songs in 1903. He proceeded to spend the rest of his life collecting with nearly 3,000 songs collected in England and over 1,500 on his four collecting trips to the Appalachian Mountains in USA (1915-18). He died in 1924 and most of his collection was housed and curated in the Cecil Sharp House in London by his daugher Joan. This later became the Vaughan William Memorial Library. See biography by A. H. Fox Strangways and M. Karpeles (rev. ed. 1967).